It’s a well-known fact that boxing is quite a brutal sport. A sport in which each fighter must leave everything in the ring be it blood, sweat or tears. In August 2017, Conor McGregor made the step up, or down, depending on who you ask, from the Octagon to fight arguably the greatest boxer ever in Floyd Mayweather.The bout at the T-Mobile Arena saw Mayweather come out on top with a 10^th-round stoppage in an expected result for the American.McGregor remains part of an exclusive cult to transition from MMA to boxing, with the Irishman having earned huge sums of respect from former boxing legend Mike Tyson.Speaking on his very own Hotboxin’ podcast, Tyson said: “He [McGregor] never really had a boxing match in his life, right? He went 10 rounds with the greatest fighter in the last 100 years of boxing. He scored punches. Look what he had to fight against and look what he did when he fought against it.”With Floyd Mayweather ending his professional boxing career 50-0, not losing a single battle in the ring, one thing fans across the world owe McGregor is respect.

The bout between the two generated more than a staggering £450m through global revenues, ticket sales, sponsorship and international distribution. 

Aside from that, the fight made 4.3m pay-per-view buys in North America alone, second to Money May’s bout two years earlier against fellow legendary boxer Manny Pacquiao, which made 4.6m buys. 

Whether McGregor has any future in boxing is beside the point, earning the respect of The Baddest Man on the Planet is some going.